Re: High memory usage with www/firefox and www/seamonkey on amd64

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:39:11AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> >>
> >> ¿Is this the usual behavior? A friend of mine with Linux/amd64 says it
> >> takes to him 300-500 Mbytes of memory.
> >
> >displaying the same tabs ?
> 
> Diferent tabs. If I remember well it was about 70 tabs.

It could be the content of the tab that makes a difference then.

> 
> >
> >In fact I suspect firefox may have a memory leak somewhere ...
> >Either that, or it's using memory for cache, and does a bad job
> >at scaling i
> 
> Do you speak about specific leak of firefox on NetBSD or a leak on all
> platforms?

I don't use linux myself; but I've seen firefox on linux suck lots
of RAM as well (users complaining that their machine was slow)

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